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IndieGames.com is presented by the UBM TechWeb Game Network, which runs the Independent Games Festival & Summit every year at Game Developers Conference. The company (producer of the Game Developers Conference series, Gamasutra.com and Game Developer magazine) established the Independent Games Festival in 1998 to encourage innovation in game development and to recognize the best independent game developers.

Though Zombies Go to a Party is small in scale, the above Chiptune Fest seemed a pretty rockin' way to start off this week's feature. Not to mention, devs have overworked zombies in games, and they deserve a party. This party belongs to Mini LD #36 entry Eruption developer Derevenksy.

This week's Screenshot Saturday sampling is about a lot more than zombies, though, with almost 200 pics to peruse. Enviro-bear 2010 dev Justin Smith posted a cryptic character shot (of something!?!). The arwork of Tyrone Henrie's Catapult for Hire and Final Boss Entertainment's Doom-like FPS Wrack have received major updates, too.

But that's just the beginning of The Day After #ScreenshotSaturday.

Dustforce developers are working on an FPS roguelike, described as a kind of Quake and NetHack mix. The character is holding a revolver and a thurible (incense burner), Mary Kish of Hitbox Team tells me. The game currently has no name, but I'm expecting something (un)holy.

Finally, Memory of a Broken Dimension earns a mention for its one of many odd images you can see on x r a's website. MOBD may be an FPS, as hinted at the "FPS?" on the game's page. "The emulator of an obscure computer system propagates across the internet, a signal is established..." It's almost as cryptic as this Tweet recently sent to our fair IGF Chairman: